Chapter 557 Sunlight Fungal Blanket and Insect Fungal Host

The biomass consumed by the three Leviathan ships plus more than 20,000 Zerg is an astronomical figure. If they don't want to be consumed in one wave, they can only transfer this wave of consumption to other realms.

But this time, Luke first attacked the Angry Plant Realm, and he obviously had other purposes.

In addition to annihilating Bulb Anne, he wanted to try to open up a new resource acquisition channel for his Zerg units.

Zerg are indeed biological units, but they also have very obvious fungal characteristics. The existence of fungal blankets is a major proof. In addition, there are also "Zerg Host" units among the Zerg that look like walking mushrooms, which are realistic and hideous versions of Paras Parast, and can spread spores.

In this case, those individuals in Plants vs. Zombies that have the characteristics of "plants + animals" and "fungi + animals" at the same time naturally have the possibility of being used for their own purposes.

Sanmu, who really didn't want to miss this war, was also on Leviathan 1 at this time. After Luke briefly explained the resource output characteristics of sunflowers and sunshine mushrooms, he immediately entered his identity state of "Three Evolution Master Abath Mushroom" and began to study.

It didn't take long for Sanmu to understand why Luke hired trainers of water, earth, and ice pets from Six Star City to cooperate with flying units to blow sand, rain, and hail in the Angry Plant World almost 24 hours a day, in order to prevent direct sunlight from reaching them.

Sunflowers and sunshine mushrooms are like small living photovoltaic power stations, and they can convert the collected sunlight into special catalysts to assist the bulbous main brain to give birth to any plant, and also allow the plants to grow rapidly without side effects.

Especially these plants that are as energetic as animals and have their own will, according to the screening of gene fragments, it can be basically confirmed that sunlight is a must for their rapid growth.

Flowers that do not provide additional sunlight are not unable to grow, but it takes a long time, and normal light, water, and nutrition are indispensable.

But whether it is sunflowers or sunshine mushrooms, they need a lot of direct light to quickly collect and accumulate sunlight.

Sunflowers need the sun, and sunshine mushrooms need the moon, but after Luke did this, the efficiency of collecting and converting sunlight dropped directly.

Those 400 corn cannons were indeed squeezed out by draining out the sunlight reserve, but they were targeted by the Wind and Thunder Dragon Soul and the Explosive Mosquito, and no results were achieved.

I don’t know if it’s because Sanmu’s research progress is fast. At the beginning, the plants, animals and fungi in Plants vs. Zombies were too compatible with the alien insects. Luke’s scorched earth had just covered about half of this fragment area, and Sanmu had already produced results, and there were two.

They are the sunlight fungus blanket and the insect fungus host.

Ah, I feel that the word "sunlight" is a bit inconsistent when used on the insect swarm, but it is very suitable in terms of the newly added functionality.

Simply put, it is to initially extract the sunlight mushroom gene characteristics that are most suitable for the insect swarm and integrate them into the fungus blanket.

The sunlight fungus blanket can automatically collect sunlight, and the more direct the sunlight is, the faster the collection efficiency is. If it is at night, the collection efficiency is about one-third or even less in the case of moonlight.

The above is the case when there is sufficient sunlight and moonlight. Once you encounter Luke's unethical manipulation of the sky, which blocks the light for a long time, you will also be defeated.

These collected sunlight can replace part of the biomass, as the daily physical consumption of Zerg units and Zerg buildings, and can also participate in the construction of Zerg defense buildings.

The original Zerg defense biological buildings only have spine crawlers for the ground, spore crawlers for the air, and toxin-eating bodies that spread virus spores. After swallowing the plant fungus system of Plants vs. Zombies, there are more options.

At present, the research on "plants + animals" still needs some time and coincidence, but "fungi + animals" have been seamlessly connected with Zerg fungi.

In theory, the sunlight fungus blanket can produce all the "Plant Zombie" mushroom units that have been collected and loaded into the gene bank by consuming sunlight. The mushroom units produced in this way can exist for a long time and be incorporated into the defense system of the Zerg.

But there is another extremely special individual here, that is the insect host.

The insect host can be regarded as a mobile spore library. The huge mushroom-shaped structure on its back can easily accommodate millions of mushroom spores.

The insect host only needs to inject hormones and a very small amount of sunlight into these spores through the glands to quickly catalyze these mushroom spores into mushroom worm units that will only survive for a very short time, but have the ability to move freely and attack.

Yes, just like the plants running around in "Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare", which has been transformed from a tower defense puzzle game to an fps shooting game, mushroom worms can also run around and spit out unique biological bullets at will.

The attack method of these mushroom worms depends on the type of spores used by the insect host, but most of them have high attack desire, weak vitality, short life cycle, and short production interval. They are very good line fillers in specific combat situations.

When Luke heard that Sanmu had created such a unit, he also took some time to run over and fiddle with it, and quickly realized the war potential of the insect host.

If the mushroom spores of the small puff mushroom and the large puff mushroom were replaced with the destruction mushroom spores that we do not have now, wouldn't it become an enhanced version of the "pocket factory" of the Goblin Tinker in "Warcraft" that can produce self-destructive mechanical goblins?

In addition to the war potential, these Zerg hosts also have extremely rare production capabilities in the Zerg swarm.

In the absence of fighting, the Zerg host can directly plant the Sunlight Mushroom on its back, like a mobile solar cell to collect and store sunlight alone. When the Zerg host is buried in the fungal blanket, the overflowing sunlight resources can be transmitted back to the main base through the fungal blanket.

Faced with such a harvest, Luke didn't know whether to say that his decision was wise and brave, or that the Zerg's potential in all aspects was too strong.

And this further strengthened Luke's idea of ​​digging out the bulbous mastermind in this area.

Because the "Plant Zombies" collected so far are not complete, there may be super killers like the Destruction Mushroom, but they must be the kind that explodes when exposed to light. The reason why the bulbous mastermind is not used now may be because Luke has not invested in the ground army, and this thing cannot explode Leviathan.

So the only feasible way to obtain the Destruction Mushroom spores is to directly find their plant gene bank, that is, the bulbous mastermind or the mastermind clone.

"Is this right?"

Luke glanced at his own evolution master.

"It's right here."

Sanmu pointed to the scorched earth directly below with a confident look.

And this is the area where Sanmu sensed the bulbous main brain was hidden.